ostrya

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀστρύα (ostrúa).

Pronunciation

Noun

ostrya f (genitive ostryae); first declension

  1. European hophornbeam (Ostrya carpinifolia)

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative ostrya ostryae
genitive ostryae ostryārum
dative ostryae ostryīs
accusative ostryam ostryās
ablative ostryā ostryīs
vocative ostrya ostryae

Descendants

  • → Translingual: Ostrya
  • ⇒? Welsh: oestrwydd

References

  • “ostrya”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ostrya in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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